Revising – The Journey Continues

 March 12, 2017 

Still going through SS1. Still trying to figure out a working title. The good news is that I have been beefing up some of the areas that seemed to be lacking, more description, a little more back story, that sort of thing.

After the first battle I realized based on everything going on around West he would have needed some medical help. I’ve added a chapter to the story detailing that, plus dropping a few more hints about the world.

My goal in doing that is to make people want to learn more about the world. I don’t want to do a full encyclopedia info dump or turn it into a Game of Thrones style exposition where everything for the last few centuries is provided. The more I continue to work on this project the more the overarching story line continues to come together. I still have three other short stories to revise, then my Nano Project, then Red Magic.

To that I’m going to start looking for Alpha Readers. I’ll be looking for feedback, things that were liked, things that weren’t liked, and gods willing people won’t tell me that it’s the worst pile of manure they’ve ever read and I should be ashamed. That is always my biggest fear but if I want to get out there other people WILL have to read my work.

When I started the revision on 03-04-2017 the total word count was 12323. As of 03-11-2017 I’m up to 17307. That does include the new chapter.  I’ll be working on the other new chapter, then back to revising.

If you are interested in Alpha Reading my book please drop me a line and I can make it happen.

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